Benefits for Small Scale Renewable Generation
There are numerous benefits for UK farmers who want to start generating their own electricity both for their own consumption and also to feed into the national grid, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Back to Nature
Meadows in a river valley can be more than just beautiful. Besides contributing to biodiversity richness, they can also supply sustainable bioenergy, protect the aquatic environment and produce organic fertiliser.

Waste Could Generate Seven Per Cent of Spain's Electricity
Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain.

Could Generating Energy from Waste be the Answer?
Scientists at Teesside University are helping to find answers to one of the most difficult problems facing the world today - generating energy without accelerating climate change or harming food production.

Energy Yield from Biogas Can be Improved
With online monitoring of different parameters in the biogas production, the energy yield of this climate-friendly energy source can be optimised, according to research at Aarhus University Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.

Indirect Effects of 'Wastes'
In 2008, the Gallagher Review highlighted the indirect effects of using agricultural commodities as biofuel feedstocks. Diverting streams of ‘wastes’, 'residues' and 'by-products' (referred to as 'wastes' for short) into biofuel production, when they...

Using Pigs to Grow Tomatoes with Biogas
An innovative eco-friendly pig farm of the future is the dream of a Danish pig farmer, Soren Hansen and the concept of a PhD architecture student, Nee Rentz Petersen, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

CHP Opportunities Right for Food and Beverage Processors
An emerging confluence of legislation, funding, and technical progress regarding alternative energy conversion and energy efficiency is resulting in new opportunities for industrial energy systems implementations, writes Comas Haynes in PoultryTech at...

Safety of Animal By Products from Biogas Production
A study by the BIOHAZ panel of the European Food Safety Authority analysing the pathogens that remain in the digest after animal by products have been processed for biogas production has concluded that it is irrelevant whether Clostridium perfringens...

AD - Providing an Income and Answering Environment Problems
For South East England dairy farmer Gwyn Jones, the question of what to do with the manure and slurry from his 750 head herd could have been a problem, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Environmental Issues Control Slaughter Production
When the Danish Crown slaughterhouse in Horsens opened its doors in May 2005, it was not only one of the largest and most modern meat processing plants in the world, but also one of the most environmentally friendly, writes TheBioenergySite, senior editor...

Grass Biomethane - a Biofuel Solution for Ireland?
New research indicates that biomethane made from grass could be an energy efficient and sustainable transport biofuel in Ireland and other temperate Northern climates. Its net energy is potentially higher than rapeseed biodiesel and wheat ethanol sys...

Energy Recovery from Municipal Waste Technologies
A recent study has explored the impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different technologies used to treat municipal solid waste for energy recovery.

Animal Waste to Energy in Denmark
For the Danish agriculture sector, the production of biogas through anaerobic digestion is more than just a means of producing cheap renewable energy, writes TheBioenergySite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Biomass Gasification, Biochar Show Commercial Promise
Biomass gasification and the resulting production of “biochar” were among the topics addressed at the Texas Animal Manure Management Issues Conference 29-30 September in Round Rock, north of Austin, Texas.